#875979 openssh-client: Please ship /usr/bin/scp in its own binary package

Package:
openssh-client
Source:
openssh
Description:
secure shell (SSH) client, for secure access to remote machines
Submitter:
Guilhem Moulin
Date:
2017-09-16 19:24:05 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#875979#5
Date:
2017-09-16 19:00:46 UTC
From:
To:
Hi there,

OpenSSH's scp(1) binary can be used in client mode in combination with
other SSH clients, or in sink mode in combination with another server.

/usr/bin/scp is only linked against libc6, but to install it along with
a more lightweight SSH server/client (Drobear for instance, cf. #495795)
one currently needs to install openssh-client, which pulls 10.3MiB in 8
dependencies on a clean sid chroot, hence can be a blocker on small or
embedded systems.

Please consider shipping /usr/bin/scp in its own binary package instead;
as per Colin's mail from debian-ssh@l.d.o [0]:


Thanks for maintainer OpenSSH in Debian!